Its (IIRC) something along the lines of foreign language qualifications, say a spanish/french gcse grade C or above gets you Â£500 on completion of phase 2 training. A levels would get you more, and degrees even higher.

Just a few hours after arriving at Ashford, there was a melee at the Acorn club bar one evening, I ended up with a free toastie !

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You barsteward that was mine, bought and paid for, I wondered what happened to it. As for Golden Hello, I'm still waiting for mine and I'm not leaving without it. I believe there were some who were interested in Golden Showers but I'll draw a veil over that for now.

Just a few hours after arriving at Ashford, there was a melee at the Acorn club bar one evening, I ended up with a free toastie !

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You barsteward that was mine, bought and paid for, I wondered what happened to it. As for Golden Hello, I'm still waiting for mine and I'm not leaving without it. I believe there were some who were interested in Golden Showers but I'll draw a veil over that for now.

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Think again Rebel ! You always got yours for free from Randy Mandy (or did you secretly fancy Kim the Limb-maybe it was the caliper that did it) ?

My Golden Hello was 47 quid for a fortnight's work. As I'd been used to earning about 200 a week I was a bit confused at the pay table. The Paymaster and Pay Sgt noticed I think - the Squad Cpl did anyway as I was bollocked all the way to the Guardroom - that shell was a bit heavy as I recall - "What do you mean you have a bank account"? Happy days.